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Grieving widow pleads for return of special lost bag
TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Jocelyne Lavoie-Konyk, with daughter Nadine Konyk, shows bag similar to one she lost.
A woman who travelled across the country to mark the first anniversary of her husband's death is asking Winnipeggers to help find priceless items that were lost on her first day here.
After Jocelyne Lavoie-Konyk and her daughter, Nadine Konyk, arrived in the city last Friday, a bag holding a memorial scrapbook dedicated to her husband, David Konyk, a firefighter, fell from a car trunk onto the road.
The bag also held a journal Lavoie-Konyk is keeping to help her with her grief, as well as a battery charger for a hand prosthesis she has.
She had carefully toiled over the memorial book, which has one-of a-kind photos and badges, to show her daughter.
"I'm still grieving... it was an unexpected death when my husband passed away," said Lavoie-Konyk, 67, who moved to Quebec with him in 2004 and created the book to chronicle his accomplishments. "It was like a life story."
David Konyk, buried at a memorial honouring firefighters in Brookside Cemetery, died of a rare form of cancer 12 days shy of his 65th birthday. The pair had been married more than 40 years.
Lavoie-Konyk came back to the city and planned to be here with family until the end of the month, past what would have been her husband's birthday.
"I'm just putting my faith in the goodness of people," said Nadine Konyk, 35, adding the family has looked for the missing items in garbage cans in the area.
It's believed the items went missing somewhere between the airport and Ferry Road and Ellice Avenue after a trunk-release button was accidentally hit. The family said they think the bag went missing about 5:30 p.m.
It is green plastic and has a unique design on its background of a New York City scene, including a yellow cab. Shoes and jewelry were also inside it. Anyone with information on the bag's whereabouts can call police at 986-3061.
gabrielle.giroday@freepress.mb.ca
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition May 15, 2012 A6
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